Hacked account

Cferra · January 25, 2004, 01:13

I'd like to report that my account was hacked as seen here:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...2664253&t=6130

The first post and the last post made today were by me. The others in that thread were not. Someone obviously hacked my account and changed my profile. I would like to discuss the situation further but I have no idea who the admin of this message board is and how to contact him or her.

I assure you that I was hacked and I would like something done about it. I already changed my password. I'm just letting people know what happened as there seems to be no board discussion forum here. Please offer any assistance.

Cferra

Nubclear · January 25, 2004, 01:15

Cferra · January 25, 2004, 01:17

And that's supposed to help...how?

Kuciwalker · January 25, 2004, 01:20

It's called the "DL dance"

Nubclear · January 25, 2004, 01:22

It's an ancient dance to help expel the French demon "Doubleouverture"

Edit: Damn you skywalker!

Kuciwalker · January 25, 2004, 01:23

Quote:

Edit: Damn you skywalker!

Was that in your capacity as a Mormon preacher, or just an expletive?

Cferra · January 25, 2004, 01:24

I meant about the hack. I really could care less about a bunch of dancing cool spots..

Nubclear · January 25, 2004, 01:28

Which is better to you, Cferra?

or

Your answer will determine the level of help you get

PLATO · January 25, 2004, 01:29

PLATO · January 25, 2004, 01:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Which is better to you, Cferra?

or

Your answer will determine the level of help you get

Think "Comrade" gives him a hint??

Kuciwalker · January 25, 2004, 01:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Which is better to you, Cferra?

or

Your answer will determine the level of help you get

Cferra, here's a hint - look at the Comrade's avatar if you don't already know the right answer

PLATO · January 25, 2004, 01:34

UR on the job, no doubt. Welcome to the Community Forum. Item1: This is where this discussion belongs.
Item2: The fact that the thread was moved here means that a mod now knows your problem.

Cferra · January 25, 2004, 01:35

*edit* Thanks for moving this. I'm usually a fun guy but I ain't in the mood when some loser hacks my account.

Cferra

Urban Ranger · January 25, 2004, 01:36

There is no reason to believe anybody broke into your account. If those posts were in fact not make by you, a much more likely explanation is you had left your account open on a public-access computer.

asleepathewheel · January 25, 2004, 01:37

roflmao

Cferra · January 25, 2004, 01:40

I haven't used this account on any computer. and someone did break into my account and changed my profile. I swear I did not post the comments. Have a mod check the IPs for the posts made by the person in the middle of the thread and my own posts. They should be different.

Would it have mattered if I kept the profile changed?

Nubclear · January 25, 2004, 01:44

Speaking of IPs....For some reason my IP address registers as being in Fort Colling CO.
Um...???

rah · January 25, 2004, 02:00

Quote:

Originally posted by Cferra
Have a mod check the IPs for the posts made by the person in the middle of the thread and my own posts. They should be different.

I always get suspicious when someone asks us to check the IPs.
But you've changed your password so if it happens again, let us know.

Ming · January 25, 2004, 02:10

Interesting... a different IP address was used for the posts you mentioned. However, that doesn't prove that somebody hacked your account... you could just be playing a game with us and switched computers

I will say from looking at the IPs. that nobody else from this site has used the IP addresses that were used to post the questionable posts...

If it happens again, let us know.

Kuciwalker · January 25, 2004, 02:57

Quote:

Originally posted by Cferra
I haven't used this account on any computer. and someone did break into my account and changed my profile. I swear I did not post the comments. Have a mod check the IPs for the posts made by the person in the middle of the thread and my own posts. They should be different.

Would it have mattered if I kept the profile changed?

You haven't used this account on a computer? What are you using it on, pray tell?

Skanky Burns · January 25, 2004, 08:38

I was going to comment on that too.
Perhaps he deposited his posts directly into the database, bypassing the need to actually use his account.

DrSpike · January 25, 2004, 10:02

We can do that?

Skanky Burns · January 25, 2004, 10:12

Well, not all of us can.

Cferra · January 25, 2004, 10:42

What I meant was that I wasn't using this accounr on any other computer. I have no other computers in the house. I am not playing a game with you. My account was hacked. You saw the different IPs. I am not the kind of person that would do something so childish.

I would never make up a story like this. Someone hacked my account. It was not from this computer I am using now.

Cferra

Skanky Burns · January 25, 2004, 10:51

Who did it, and how did they get your password?

Ming · January 25, 2004, 11:13

And why would they do it?

Cferra · January 25, 2004, 11:20

That's what I'd like to know. I got e-mail reports of posts being made in my name and I went here to check it out after I made my 31 civ topic. I saw the profile and it had some dirty stuff in there.

I have no idea how he or she managed to get my password. But, it happened and we may never know who it was.

All I know is, I got post reports and someone was using my account. I dunno if the hacker was using my account for any other posts. All I wanted to do when I made this thread was to warn you all about this hacker who hacked my account.

Cferra

PLATO · January 25, 2004, 11:39

I would think it highly unlikely that both your username and password could be randomly derived. Perhaps a drunken frenzy at some unremembered female's home??

Cferra · January 25, 2004, 11:45

No. Someone hacked my account here. Period. End of discussion. I know I'd have trouble believing me if I was in your position. I mod a couple places myself but guess what? It happened.

ChrisiusMaximus · January 25, 2004, 12:06

Are you perhaps a Jeckyl and Hyde type character, are their gaps in your life that you just cant quatify. Has anything like this happened to you before.

Have you in fact got a split personality ?, or cant you remember